It's not just a lazy media cliche to describe Vietnam vets who "razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan" these days. Bookworm Room writes that the current meme amongst journalists is to use the riff to make a victim out of Sulejman Talovic, the Bosnian Muslim who killed four and wounded five others in Salt Lake City:

This “scarred by war” meme certainly wouldn’t be the first time the media has ascribed killing tendencies to a specific group. You may recall that, for decades, we heard that Vietnam Vets were loaded guns, just waiting to go off. Since my Dad was a WWII vet who’d seen the worst kind of fighting, as had all his peers, I found this peculiar vulnerability in the Vietnam Vets hard to understand. Over and over I’d asking anyone who cared (and many who didn’t), why this group of soldiers, unlike any other group, was unable to return to normal civilian life after the war. Most guessed that it was because of drug use in Vietnam, with some adding that it was because of American hostility when the Vets returned home.

Of course, none guessed that it was because the mythology about the Vets’ violent, anti-social, self-destructive habits was untrue. Most people (myself excluded) were surprised by a significant recent study showing that the “crazy vet” myth was a vastly overblown construct, rather than a reality.

In this case, therefore, I’m taking with a large grain of salt this early attempt to portray Talovic as a kid who was a bomb waiting to go off because of what happened in Bosnia, as opposed to either a crazy psychopathy, or another drive-by jihadist.

Update: "Allahpundit" writes:

The Freepers have been sniffing around for signs of jihad ever since it was revealed that the killer was Muslim. A few of them think they’ve found it here. Skip ahead to 1:25; you’ll hear two gunshots at 1:28, followed by a few seconds of cops shouting and then, at 1:39, what some claim sounds like “Allahu Akbar” three times. For all I know it’s Bosnian profanity, but judge for yourself.